Censor bars
Videos
Censor bars, also known as black bars, are a form of text, photography, or video censorship in which sensitive content is occluded by rectangular monochrome boxes. Since the creation of digital editin
A heavily redacted page from the lawsuit American Civil Liberties Union v. Ashcroft
Censor bars applied to an academy painting, The Birth of Venus by William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Censor bars applied to a model
Censor bars applied to a patient with Stevens–Johnson syndrome
Bleep censor
Videos
A bleep censor is the replacement of a profanity and classified information with a bleep sound, usually a 1-kilohertz sine wave. It is used on public television and radio.
Censor bars
…information", "sensitive information", etc. to indicate their presence. Alternative methods of obscuring content include overlaid images such as fig leaves. Bleep censor Colour banding…
Censor bars may be used along with the bleeps to prevent the audience from lip reading the swearer's words.